How to use critical thinking in animation process.

In my opinion，critical thinking is not only use in academic area, we also can use this skill in animation，critical thinking is no limit for any subject.

Figure1: Hollywood Flatlands(sources:http://versobooks-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/000000/063/9781844675043-frontcover-65b559e2ed784248695c01464fe865e7.jpg）

Eisenstein (1929) points out ‘Belief that all objects possess a natural life or vital force or that they are endowed with an indwelling spirit.’ And signifier and signified are closely bound together. It means we need to trace its origin, so we also need to ask where, what ,who and when. This is key point and very important in animation process, and that we can to create characters and stories about what and which background. Animation need to image， but Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts，it means a way of illuminating the facts. 

According to Leslie (2002), Like many texts on modernism and critical theory, Hollywood Flatlands is structured as a nostalgic stories of utopian rise and disappointing fall. Because animation may include many individualism spiritual and to destroy levels of culture. For example, according to Gadassik (2010), Disney’s classic film “Dumbo” is not only a fairy tale, it use Dumbo's image to talk about individual efforts are co-opted by a circus that enslaves generation after generation. Artist use critical thinking to analyse social conditions and how to display in animation and also to show their aim.

Figure2: Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas, etching and aquatint (sources: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/thumbnails/uploads/images/2011/07/28/SID46050_WWI_510.jpg.510x10000_q85.jpg)

For example，This painting completed in 1924, Der Krieg War, 1924 arose out of Dix’s own experiences of the horrors of war. War profoundly affected him as an individual and as an artist, and he took every opportunity, both during his active service and afterwards, to document his experiences. 

Before war finished, most of his works all criticized Nazi ideals and to draw them and display.

Reference
Eisenstein,S (1929)Eisentstein on Disney，pp-10
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Esther, L. 2002, Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-garde, pp8-9
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Plymouth University (2010) 'Critical Thinking', Learning Development.
Available at http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/learn
[Accessed: 27 October, 2015]

Figure1: Hollywood Flatlands(sources:http://versobooks-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/000000/063/9781844675043-frontcover-65b559e2ed784248695c01464fe865e7.jpg）
[Accessed: 27 October, 2015]

Figure2: Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas, etching and aquatint (sources: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/thumbnails/uploads/images/2011/07/28/SID46050_WWI_510.jpg.510x10000_q85.jpg)
[Accessed: 27 October, 2015]